
The Agile Architecture Revolution
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- The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-Based SOA, and Mobile Computing Are Changing Enterprise IT
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part One-Enterprise as Complex System
- Chapter 1: Introducing Agile Architecture
- Deconstructing Agile
- Architecting Software/Human Systems
- Meta Thinking and Agile Architecture
- Defining Architecture: Worse Than Herding Cats
- Why Nobody Is Doing Enterprise Architecture
- Complex Systems: At the Heart of Agile Architecture
- Chapter 2: Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone, but Let's Talk about Service- Oriented Architecture
- Rumors of SOA's Demise . . .
- Thinking Outside the SOA Box
- Okay, So How Did SOA End Up Dead in the First Place?
- Services: The Core SOA Lesson
- Implementing Policy-Driven Behavior
- What's the Deal with Web Services?
- The Third Conversation
- Freeing Architecture from the Underlying Infrastructure
- Implementing SOA without an ESB
- The SOA Marketing Paradox and the Wizard of Oz
- Chapter 3: Governance: The Secret to Satisfying the Business Agility Meta-Requirement
- Organizational Context for Governance
- Architecture-Driven Governance: Beyond IT Governance
- Rethinking Quality
- Introducing the Agility Model
- Meta-Policy Governance
- Interrelationships among Governance, Quality, and Management
- Four Stages of Agile Architecture Governance
- Architecture-Driven Governance and the Butterfly Effect
- Chapter 4: The Enterprise as Complex System
- Engineering the Enterprise with Complex Systems Engineering
- Best-Effort Quality and the Agile Architecture Quality Star
- Best-Effort Quality in Action
- Resilience: The Flip Side of Agility
- The Flash Mob Enterprise
- Chapter 5: Agile Architecture in Practice
- The Composition Vision for IT
- Vision to Reality: Rethinking Integration
- Aligning Agile Architecture with BPM
- Business Modeling and Agile Architecture
- Processes That Satisfy the Meta-Requirement of Agility
- Part Two-The ZapThink 2020 Vision
- Chapter 6: You Say You Want a Revolution . . .
- Five Supertrends of Enterprise IT
- Continuous Business Transformation: At the Center of ZapThink 2020
- Where's Our Deep Interoperability?
- The Crisis Points of the ZapThink 2020 Vision
- Big Data Explosion and the Christmas Day Bomber
- Stuxnet and Wikileaks: Harbingers of Cyberwar
- Cybersecurity the Agile Architecture Way
- The Generation Y Crisis Point
- Chapter 7: The Democratization of Enterprise IT
- Demise of the Enterprise IT Department
- The Agile Architecture Approach to IT Project Management
- Crisis Point: The Enterprise Application Crash
- Replacing Enterprise Software: Easier Said than Done
- Part Three-Implementing Agile Architecture
- Chapter 8: Deep Interoperability: Getting REST Right (Finally!)
- Programmable Interfaces: The Never-Ending Story
- REST to the Rescue
- Dogmatic vs. Iconoclastic REST
- REST vs. Web Services
- Can REST Fix Web Services?
- Does REST Provide Deep Interoperability?
- Where Is the SOA in REST-Based SOA?
- REST-Based SOA: An Iconoclastic Approach
- Chapter 9: Finally, Let's Move to the Cloud
- Déjà Vu All Over Again
- Countering Vendor Spin with Architecture
- Interlude: Neutralizing the Cloud Threat
- Why Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors
- Architecting beyond Cloud Computing's Horseless Carriage
- BASE Jumping in the Cloud: Rethinking Data Consistency
- Cloud Multitenancy: More than Meets the Eye
- Keys to Enterprise Public Cloud
- Why Public Clouds Are More Secure than Private Clouds
- Why You Really, Truly Don't Want a Private Cloud
- Avoiding Unexpected Cloud Economics Pitfalls
- Rethinking Cloud Service Level Agreements
- Are Your Software Licenses Cloud Friendly?
- Garbage in the Cloud
- Beware Fake Clouds
- Learning the Right Lessons from the 2011 and 2012 Amazon Crashes
- Failure Is the Only Option
- Cloud Configuration Management: Where the Rubber Hits the Clouds
- Clouds, SOA, REST, and State
- The Secret of a RESTful Cloud
- BPM in the Cloud: Disruptive Technology
- Cloud-Oriented Architecture and the Internet of Things
- Location Independence: The Buckaroo Banzai Effect
- Postscript: The Cloud Is the Computer
- Chapter 10: Can We Do Agile Enterprise Architecture?
- Frameworks and Methodologies and Styles, Oh My!
- The Beginning of the End for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- How to Buy an Agile Architecture
- The Dangers of Checklist Architecture
- Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- About the Author
- Index
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